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Are you ready to check out of the battle because you are tired of the challenges? While serving your heart out, some accuse you of lacking work life balance. Others find fault as spectators. They enjoy commenting from the sidelines. It helps me to think of life as when my house was flooded. When a…

Do you long to get clarity on how your story in God’s bigger story begins and how it will end? Hebrews 12:2 reads: looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand…

I used to feel sorry for those who lost everything. Some friends had to leave behind their country and all their assets to begin again in uncharted territory. When I found myself in a place where I had to reinvent myself, I saw those same friends as being blessed. You see, they were further along…

God is teaching me so much about what it means to serve with our whole heart. A trainer of service dogs tells me that the basic obedience most people view as obedience in their pups is not obedience at all. He said the authority structure is not in place. When you give a dog a…

As you stare into the new year, are you feeling restless? God told those without faith that “you will never enter my rest.” Faith is the door to peace and with peace comes spiritual and emotional power. If we’re trying to gain control in life through our own human logic, we’re substituting faith with a…

It’s hard to wait when you define happiness around yourself. Here are my canine babies learning to wait. As far as they are concerned, they don’t understand why I’m occupied on the other side of the gate. What a vivid illustration of how we often behave with God. Do we forget His compassion is with…

What a picture of how life often looks. Here are the pups fighting over a piece of cloth. The one who got away with it was the mini red Bernedoodle that weighed 10 lbs. The three big doodles looked stumped when off ran the mini Bernedoodle with the goods. What lessons can be learned from…

   Let’s face it, it’s hard to take the hill by yourself. It’s especially brutal when you’ve poured yourself into those you love and felt their loss when they could no longer take the hill with you. You find yourself missing them because not anyone will do. These individuals were the ones you let into…